Users unable to authenticate, and access the ../nagios site.

[Jim Avery]

On 12 July 2011 22:07, dOE <doepain at gmail.com> wrote:
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description: Ubuntu 10.10
> Release: 10.10
> Codename: maverick
> Nagios: 3.0.3
>
> I executed the following commands
>
> htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users users_name
> service apache2 reload
>
> I have a local user named "user_name" as well
>
> And my cgi.cfg has the usernames as follows:
>
> use_authentication=1
> authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin,users_name
> authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin,users_name
> authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin,users_name
> authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin,users_name
> authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin,users_name
> authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin,users_name
> authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin,users_name
>
> However the "user_name" can not authenticate with Apache to access the site.
>
> Does the user need to belong to any particular group other than their own?

Note that "users_name" is not the same as "user_name".

I appreciate your example name might not be the actual name you are
thinking of, but you might need to check you have the spelling spot
on.  You can cat the htpasswd.users file to make sure you have the
name spelled right in there too (it's just a text file).

It might be worth setting the password again using "htpasswd
/usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users users_name" just in case the
password was spelled incorrectly the first time you entered it.

Also, check the file /etc/apache2/conf.d/nagios.conf to make sure that
apache is looking for htpasswd.users in the right location.

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